KINTSUGI

For thirty-seven years, Aditya and Naina Rao built a marriage that looked unshakable from the outside. What no one saw was the quiet distance growing between them-the truths left unspoken long before love began to fade.When Aditya discovers evidence of his wife's affair and chooses silence, he believes he is protecting them both. Months later, he meets Rhea Menon, a hotel manager whose calm presence awakens something he thought he had lost. What begins as a conversation becomes a hidden relationship that endures for fourteen years, unseen by the family that never suspects it exists.Everything changes when a heart attack brings both worlds together in a hospital corridor, forcing long-buried truths into the open.Kintsugi is a deeply moving novel about love, loyalty, regret, and the fragile line between being needed and being loved. Spanning four decades and three generations of a Pune family, it asks whether broken relationships can truly be repaired-or whether healing begins only when we acknowledge the cracks that were always there.Some things survive not because they were never broken, but because the people holding the pieces decide they are still worth saving.